Nobody doubts that human activities have dramatically transformed Earth, so why has there been no official recognition of the ...

An international subcommittee of geologists recently voted to reject a proposal to make the Anthropocene an official new geological epoch, defined by humanity's enormous impact on the planet.

We are living in a time many people refer to as the Anthropocene. Humans have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant global warming and other changes to land, ...

For the past 15 years, researchers with the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) have argued that the epoch of human-driven changes to the Earth's geology (for which their team is named) began more ...

That, Zalasiewicz says, is what we are in the process of determining. The word “Anthropocene” was coined by Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen about a decade ago. One day Crutzen, who shared a Nobel ...

Dale Jamieson highlights many of the problems we face—environmental, human, and nonhuman alike—and offers workable solutions for what must be done to care for our wounded planet.

It's an oft-repeated argument. But it completely misses the point. When Paul Crutzen first proposed the term Anthropocene in a moment of insight at a scientific meeting in 2000, it was not from ...

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So, in the face of a rampant global appetite and a wildly uncertain future, is the chicken or the egg the more sustainable choice? 2.  Yellow chicken = green chicken. Chicken feed is no chicken feed ...

The Anthropocene epoch highlights the significant impact of human activity on the environment, prompting a reevaluation of capitalism's role in addressing climate change and environmental degradation.